Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTOne recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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